What did Neanderthals accomplish?
Our friends at a politically themed board have a hard on for Neanderthals and the idea of them being more intellectually capable than Homo Sapiens.
So what exactly did they do? I mean, if they were better than us surely they had to do something other than eat, poop and breed?
>>2032908
Mostly crystals.
>>2032908
IIRC they had more sophisticated tools and social rituals. They lost because
>their primary food source was disappearing
>low birthrates
>homo sapiens were much more agile and violently aggressive
Adapt or die lad
This thread again?
Don't you have enough of the ass pounding you got yesterday?
>>2033955
>their primary food source was disappearing
What would that be?
>>2033961
Nice contribution to the conversation!
OP take your shit to
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This is a board about history, not myths and speculative legends.
>>2033964
The Mammoth and other large, herbivorous mammals
>>2033984
Think we ate a lot of them too
>>2033988
Some of our ancestors practiced cannibalism, or so we believe.
http://www.seeker.com/earliest-europeans-were-cannibals-wore-bling-1765288413.html
Shant be replying to you
>>2033955
>they had more sophisticated tools and social rituals
Source?
>>2033988
> Our friends at a politically themed board have a hard on for Neanderthals and the idea of them being more intellectually capable than Homo Sapiens.
Where the fuck did you get this from? I go to /pol/ almost every day and I have literally never seen this posted. Shitpost where it belongs faggot.
>neanderthals were hairy ape men xD
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>>2033955
They didn't have more sophisticated tools. But they probably invented the first musica instrument that wasn't a drum.
>>2032908
Don't asians have a high % of neanderthal dna compared to everyone else? yet pol hates asians?
is all ideology schizophrenic or is this just a symptom of post modernism
>>2033955
This is incorrect. They had good tools but they remained almost completely unchanged for thousands of years, whereas sapiens were constantly tinkering with and improving theirs
As for rituals almost nothing is known about their social structure. It used to be believed that they buried their dead with flowers but thats almost certainly not true
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